The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DORMOUSE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DORMOUSE
- Little creature’s sleeping-place on river
- Place to sleep on river for rodent
- Sleepy type beginning to moan when instruction to wake up comes round
- Sleeping place has no value for little creature
- Rodent in boarding school room overlooking river
- Could be room used at the March Hare’s tea-party
- Rodent‘s place for resting by river
- Party guest finds place for a nap beside river
- Rodent has somewhere to sleep by the river
- Small creature finding somewhere to sleep by river
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The straight part
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What does DORMOUSE mean?
DORMOUSE noun- Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists.
- Glis glis, the edible dormouse
- Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse.
- A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).